Dada Bhagwan Quotes

One becomes all encompassing (sarvasva, the work is completed), when one can see the world as completely faultless (nirdosh).

No difficulty can come to you (your way). If the mind wavers, difficulty will embrace you! That is all, the law of the universe is just this.

The mind and the chit are discharging and the world has believed them to be ‘charge’. That is why they attempt to still the mind and the chit, but that is not possible.

When anyone can still the minds of five, ten or hundred people, then work can be accomplished. Who can still the mind? It is the one whose own mind is still, he can still the minds of others.

If money is spent in the wrong way, then ‘control’ the spending and if the money is spent in the right way, then ‘decontrol’ the spending.

Money is ‘limited’ and people’s demands are ‘unlimited’.

Marriage results in two possibilities: sometimes it results in prosperity, sometimes it results in destruction.

Where one does not do planning, it is all pure ‘discharge’. ‘Charge’ occurs where there is planning. Discharge is a natural characteristic. There is no pain in it.

When can one attain samadhi (eternal blissful continuous peace)? It comes when one lets go of the things that he loves the most.

Religion (Dharma) begins with an obliging nature.

Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?

Egoism’s nature is not Moha (Illusory attachment). Moha’s (Illusory attachment’s) nature is egoism. Moha is the origin of egoism.

To lose awareness of what is helpful or harmful in the worldly life is moh (Illusory vision & attachment).

One does not see ‘what is there’ and sees ‘what is not there’, that is called moha (illusory vision).

Complete departure of kashay (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is Moksha (Liberation). At first, there is the departure of kashays and then there will be ‘that’ [Liberation].

When does one become free from all tubers (of the mind)? When one becomes free of kashayas (anger-pride-deceit-greed). Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) are tubers themselves.

Absence of Kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed) is indeed bliss.

The one, who does not have the ‘poison’ of insistence, will become free from all entanglements (karmic).

The slightest awareness of ‘my-ness’ is indeed egoism.

As long as man has pride, he will appear unattractive and no one will be attracted to him. He may have a handsome face, his pride makes him unattractive.

There is no problem to relish pride when people praises you but at the same time, one must also be of the opinion that ‘this should not be so’.

For how long will insult hurt a person? For as long as he covets self-importance. For as long as one covets temporary [non eternal] things.

One cannot have the same love for getting insulted (apmaan) as he does for getting importance (maan), can he? He cannot love loss as much as he loves profit, can he?

One will become shameless if he does not fear insults in the worldly life. And in nischay [determination in the spiritual life] if one does not fear being insulted, he becomes independent.

If one man gets excessive maan (importance from others) higher than a certain point, he will get tired of it, and if he gets excessive insults higher than a certain point, he gets agitated.

In the ignorant state, there is a ‘limit’ for good qualities, it is known as the self-pride. Self-serving pride (swa-maan) is the limit of virtues in the realm of ignorance.

In the worldly life, self-serving pride (swa-maan) is considered a good quality and arrogant pride (abhimaan) as a bad quality.

Your pride will be uprooted when a person who insults you appears to be your benefactor. The person who insults should be considered a benefactor, instead people get depressed when they are insulted.

He insulted me’ -this knowledge binds one with terrible demerit karma.

Self-serving-pride (swamaan) means to take precaution against being insulted.

Arrogant pride (abhimaan) means public display of self-pride (maan).

What is arrogant pride (abhimaan)? It is to believe the weight of the body-complex [pudgal] to be one’s own weight. It is to believe that ‘I am Great’.

Awareness’ will not arise where there is deceit along with self-pride (maan). If there is deceit with self-pride, then one can never see the self-pride.

To protect one’s own statement is the greatest form of violence. To impress upon others that his statement is correct is a form of violence itself.

How can you tell whether the ego is there or not? You will know when someone insults you. If someone insults you, swallow (accept) it with understanding.

It is a tremendous strength to be able to digest an insult.

The higher one sits, the greater the fear of fall.

One does not like insults yet ironically he is an expert in insulting others. How can this be called a human-behavior?

A person who has the slightest fear of insult cannot be called a “Gnani” [the enlightened one] and a person who desires self-recognition [maan] is not a Gnani [the enlightened one].

This is one place an opinion has to be made: that this body is a betrayal.

One will bother you only if you have a karmic account with him. No one can bother you without your signature (karmic cause). All this is due solely to your signature.

To worship means to go higher. If you join the one who has gone higher, you will go higher and if you speak ill of that person, you will fall down.

In this world, it is not worth finding anyone’s faults. One becomes bound (by karma) by finding faults.

The way in which the twists were entangled to knot up the mind-speech-body and the innate nature (relative self, prakruti), is the manner in which they will be untwisted.

One gets recurrent thoughts about things he had insisted upon and about matters he formed opinions!

Once an opinion is formed, there will be attachment-abhorrence. A person without opinion is also without attachment-abhorrence.

One can give ‘correct’ opinion only if one has an open mind.

Quarrels and differences of opinions are solely due to a flawed-vision.

When one sees his own faults, he will not have the time to see the others’ faults.

All this has been created from self-fault and self-imagination!